The bad ending of an Otome game MTL - Chapter (109)

Episode 109

If you can’t express it, you don’t know. everyone is like that The Marquis has not been able to speak of Emilia until now.
If the Marquis remained silent even if other people happened to talk about it, they did not deliberately ask about it. They just thought it was good for themselves and spread it.
There are limits to explaining people who are not present or who have already left. I didn’t really know where he went, because I didn’t know what he was thinking.
I don’t know if it would have been better if it had been buried as it is. It has become a hot topic in the social world.
Emilia, who returned with Casio’s hand, and Elodie, favored by the Marquis. The angle of opposition between the two was very interesting.
There was also a nonsensical rumor that Edmund Gloucester’s riot at the debut prom was actually the will of the marquis who displeased Emilia.
Countess Betty looked at her with a secret glance, even as she spoke to the Marquis, who was savvy.
As if you really didn’t know. As if he wasn’t silent, knowing everything.
Looking into those eyes, the Marquis was truly at a loss for words. Everyone kept their mouths shut from the Marquis.
‘Cause you’re so weak because it’s weak because it’s kind You’ll get hurt. You will be misunderstood. So, do I need to say it on purpose? Unless you’re a kid, you can guess.
It was a public delusion.
“…… What?”
The Marquis asked with dismayed eyes like a child.
“I’m sorry for that kid, what should I do…… ? If I had known it would be like this, I wouldn’t have done it this way. I…….”
“…… She knows that the Marquis didn’t do that on purpose.”
“But, what about my fault? Already, he already hates seeing me, but… … .”
Laertes rolled his eyes.
I remembered what I said the last time I met Ophelia. It was early spring, before Laertes left the marquis.
Emilia was sleeping at the foot of the bed as if fainting. Ophelia’s eyes were strange. It was dry and sometimes not.
He stayed by the side of the sick all night, and on a white day, his fingertips were as white as dried flowers, tying his black hair soaked in sweat.

‘He’s a coward.’

Even with her straight lips, Ophelia asserted.

‘I’ll run, run and run again. I know. This time I’ll run to my coffin.’

The sick man, facing the fate he had denied his whole life, laughed like a deceit.

‘It feels really bad to know that things start only after I die.’

Just like a tree that has been burned on fire in a mountain is easy to sprout. It’s better to plow a new tree and build a house than to re-use rotten wood. Like spring flowers sprouting from the grave.

‘Good job, another coward.’

“As long as you don’t turn away, you can do it.”
Laertes laughed bitterly. The marquise’s eyes fluttered.
“Without turning away, put out your hand…… Whatever choice you make, just wait.”
One day, the wheel of a rolling wagon almost hit a man. The day I met someone I couldn’t forget even though I wanted to forget it.
Laertes Hope was acutely aware that my heart was beating like a pain.
Like a worm sprouting from the tip of your hand. Like the feeling of unintentionally touching a burr even though you know it will hurt if you touch it.
Just as the prophecy of the dead sprouts like a seed and grows into a tree.
After two years, I turned around and stood at the starting point. It was time to face the wounds that everyone had turned away from.

* * *

Is this the feeling of a cow being led to the slaughterhouse? I sighed in the carriage heading to the Earl of Gloucester.
Kitty sat still and looked at me.
It’s hard because it never ends with a smile when you get entangled with Edmund Gloucester.
Neither the time we met in the dressing room, nor the prom of the debut Tangte, nor the last time I made him come to apologize, it never ended so mildly.
Last time I got angry and started yelling, ‘Are you serious?’ And Edmund Gloucester didn’t say much and went back to it… … .
‘The pressure to borrow the house’s study is not a joke.’
“Ji, shall we go back now, lady?”
Kitty grabbed my sleeve and pulled me.
It was an oddly reluctant look. Instead of sighing, I stroked Kitty’s head.
“You don’t seem to like the girl either, but that…….”
“…… I am really interested in the study.”
The last time I saw him with Edmund Gloucester at that time, I shouted out that I’d go see him the next day, but that was unreasonable. So, something happened, so I contacted him to come back a little later.
It seems that the butler politely replied that he would do everything for my convenience at any time, but rather, I felt strange.
Still, I had to find a solution somehow. At the old bookstore I visited with Count Beth Young-ae, I found out that Volume 2 of Amy and Polita actually existed. That is not to say that he was not lying at all.
“Is that library that great? Do you use other bookstores?”
“…….”
Still, there will be nowhere to stop.
Although printing technology was developed to some extent, books still belonged to high-end products.
The novel books that even ordinary people can buy are low-grade editions that deliberately lowered the quality of paper and print.
Even here, high-quality books containing law codes and specialized knowledge were very expensive.
It was the same with books that had pages torn after I read them at the bookstore back then. There was no distinction between used books and new books.
Although the book was partially damaged, it was a price that could not be afforded without the pocket money ripped from Casio Brahmanduff.
There, I am a normal person. It is unclear whether I will be able to pick out a book that contains only the information I want, just by browsing through old bookstores blindly. It was even more so because it was not an area where I could get help from others.
Edmund Gloucester is an expert in theology and magic that everyone profess. Although he was often violent and was a mass-producer of countless bad endings.
Still, he was a character in the game at first. He must have been a different person from Casio Brahmanduff, the genius of the small head and back duke, and Laertes, the best swordsman in the kingdom.
Edmund’s study was famous.
Although there is a library in the royal palace, Edmund’s study is more specialized in terms of being a scholar who has continued the trajectory of an academic career that has been cut off.
The reason I went to the Earl of Gloucester in the first place was to steal information about ‘Ophelia’ that Edmund had been investigating.
“Why, Kitty? Are you worried?”
Kitty hesitated.
“It’s okay, Kitty. Literally, only the study will come and go. Even the Brahmanduffs know that I am going to the Earl of Gloucester.”
“But…… Me, I’m that person, because it looks weird… … .”
“It would be weird if that person looked fine.”
But, you don’t overreact to me. I was skeptical, then realized that the carriage had come to a halt.
The wagon door opened with the sound of a chirping horse. Thanks to contacting me in advance, the butler I saw last time came out to the front door with the servants.
“Welcome, Lady Emilia.”
“See you again.”
I nodded my head lightly. The butler politely greeted me.
“Saying, please take it easy.”
“I do.”
I did not decline the deacon’s invitation.
In the first place, to write a respectful note to Edmund’s butler, who had come with a letter the other day, was half-sarcastic.
I would have known Even so, this butler was not a person to be treated in vain as he handled it skillfully without breaking his expression.
Originally, the butler and the maid were like the assistants of the housekeeper and the hostess, respectively, so they chose competent and reliable people to use.
But it felt weird because he was so perfect that he contrasted with Edmund’s laziness.
The Earl of Gloucester was literally the mansion itself of an aristocratic family.
However, I was a little surprised that the number of users was very small. There were very few maids, and most of the ones I met were servants.
I followed the butler past them as they bowed their heads to the guests.
“Is Sir Edmund Gloucester inside?”
“I am waiting for you in the library.”
“Is the Lord by any chance at your house?”
“He is on the go.”
I was relieved at the answer to the question I had asked in case I was wondering. Since I had unintentionally heard of this family’s soy flour family, I wanted to avoid running into Edmund’s family.
Surprisingly, the scenery was pretty good. I marveled a little. The annex connected to the left end of the main building looked like a library. It was a total of three floors, and each floor smelled of old books.
Sometimes the library of an old family is great, but even so, it would be difficult to have a library of this size.
Edmund, who was waiting inside, found me and stood up with a subtle expression on his face.
“Welcome, Lady Emilia.”
“Are you at peace, Sir Edmund?”
Even empty words such as ‘Thank you for inviting me’ and ‘It’s an honor to be able to visit you’ did not come out.
“Yes.”
“As I heard, it’s really, really great. Is this Sir Edmund’s personal library?”
“Yes. That’s right. You are free to browse the collections on the 2nd and 3rd floors here.”
“Then what about the first floor?”
“It’s a collection of personal research and rare, fragile material. As much as possible, please do not touch it.”
“Keep in mind.”
I’ll have to rob the first floor when no one is around. I hid my insides and smiled like a face mask. I was on the second floor.
“Are you going to read the book now?”
“Yes. I want to.”
“Can I have a cup of tea?”
The butler next door asked.
“no. I’m going to look at the book, but if the book gets damaged, it’s a big deal.”
Edmund’s eyes widened slightly as if he was surprised by my answer.
what. I must have thought that I would be grumpy by tearing books apart and throwing them in front of my eyes.
“You said you have a novel you want to interpret?”
“Yes.”
“Then, wouldn’t it be quicker to just ask me rather than go through this library on your own?”

The Bad End of That Otome Game